On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 13:03:01 +0100,
Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@dacotec.net> wrote:
>Are you just blind to the neverending format/compatiblity/parsing/performance
>problems the whole idea behing /proc induces inherently?
>My favorite examples for how broken they are
>/proc/ksyms -- entierly redundant and not used by the modutils.
>/proc/modules -- entierly redundant to the module syscalls. *Not* used by
>lsmod.
Both are used by ksymoops. That has to run from text files because you
can diagnose an oops on another machine or after the system has been
rebooted, using a copy of /proc/ksyms and modules..
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